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Total length 14 -8, length of carapace 5 -25, bieadth of carapace 3 -75. 
Lastly, male and female examples of this species have recently been 
taken at Wolhuters Kop, Rustenburg District, by Mr. Gr. van Dam. 
Pelmatorycter pretoriae , Hewitt. (Plate XXVI, fig. 9, and text fig. 6, No. 1.) 
(Records Albany Museum, Yol. II, p. 427.) 
The tibia of the male palp is considerably elongated in this species. 
Stretched forwards the apex of the palp reaches a point about ^ of the 
distance along tibia I. The chelicera has 8 teeth, the maxilla is without 
denticles, and coxa III is devoid of a distinct patch of stiff setae on the 
post-ventral border. Metatarsus III is not scopulate interiorly and 
presumably IY is likewise (but is absent from the specimen). 
Females which I refer to this species have been taken in various 
parts of the Pretoria District, but none have been collected in the actual 
Pelmatorycter spp . — Terminal segment of male palp, equally enlarged, in 1. P. pretoriae 
Hewitt ; 2 P. dreyeri , sp. nov. ; 3. P. bulcocH , sp. nov. ; 4. P. jbrevipalpis, sp. nov. ; 
5. P. joarvus, sp. nov. 
locality from which the type male was obtained. Some very large speci- 
mens, indeed the largest specimens of this genus yet recorded, were taken 
between Lyttelton Junction and Irene. The chief characters of that 
series are : — - 
Chelicerae with 9-10 teeth : maxillae without cusps at the antero- 
ventral basal angle, but weak-pointed spinules may occur scattered about 
on the ventral surface generally : coxa III without a patch of strong setae 
on the posterior border below : metatarsus I thickly scopulate to the base 
over the ventral surface and on each side below : II likewise, but on the 
posterior side the scopuia is weak near the base : claws of tarsus IY 
without teeth, or with one or two very weak ones near the base of the claw : 
posterior sternal sigilla subcircular or oval, about J-J of a diameter apart, 
and about 1-1 J diameters distant from the sternal margin : apical segment 
